Top Ten Japanese Surnames
The Chinese have almost as many people named Wang, 93 million, or Li, 92 million, or Zhang, 88 million as the Japanese have people, 120+million.
Call out the name Wang in a Chinese classroom filled with 60 people and five of
them will say here.
But, what are the most common names in Japan? the Smith, Jones or Slobgubs?
Here's the list of the top ten.
| 1 | Satou 佐藤 |
| 2 | Suzuki 鈴木 |
| 3 | Takahashi 高橋 |
| 4 | Tanaka 田中 |
| 5 | Watanabe 渡辺 |
| 6 | Itou 伊藤/伊東 |
| 7 | Nakamura 中村 |
| 8 | Yamamoto 山本 |
| 9 | Kobayashi 小林 |
| 10 | Saitou 斉藤/斎藤 |
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May 21, 2007
It’s interesting whenever you meet people with unusual surnames but if you ever visit where they come from, you can meet tens of more of those people with “unusual” surnames.
My last name is Hikichi (unusual) and I met a family in Hawaii whose surname was same as mine and sure enough, their grandparents came from not too far away from my grandparents still live in Japan.
Takuya
May 21, 2007
My surname is Brown..millions of people have that surname -_-
February 6, 2009
Hi! I am just asking if anyone knows about ryuichi maruyama? Im not sure aboust the pelling of his name?but if anyone who knows about him…pls e-mail me ishvi_john07@yahoo.com tanks! by the way he is my father!